'Stranger Things' kids perform Motown hits with James Corden and more late night highlights this week

The cast of Stranger Things showed off their singing chops on The Late Late Show this week.

Stranger Things kids are Motown stars Netflix’s Stranger Things wouldn’t be the massive success it is without the kids, who make the series so refreshing. But the gang of rising stars – Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp – proved they’re even more talented than their characters give them credit for after delivering a Motown medley alongside James Corden on The Late Late Show on Wednesday as a group named The Upside Downs. They hit every note from The Jackson 5 to The Temptations.

Louis C.K. cancels Late Show appearance Louis C.K. was Stephen Colbert’s first TV boss back in 1996 when he appeared on the Dana Carvey Show, where he was serving as the head writer. After several sexual misconduct allegations broke out against C.K. this week, the comedian cancelled his appearance on The Late Show, prompting Colbert to comment. “For those of you tuning in to see my interview with Louis C.K. tonight, I have some bad news. Louis cancelled his appearance here tonight because The New York Times broke this story today: Five women are accusing Louis C.K. of sexual misconduct. When reached for comment, Jesus said, ‘La-la-la-la-la. I don’t want to hear about it, I was a big fan.”

Jimmy Kimmel trolls with TrumpCare ad Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t been shy when it comes to applying pressure on Donald Trump in the healthcare arena. But this week, rather than opposing the president and the Republican Party through aggressive monologue, he used his genius trolling tactics to deliver a fake ad for TrumpCare. Everything on the list of benefits sounded great, like “coverage for pre-existing conditions, no lifetime caps, a great package of essential benefits.” Trump supporters reached out praising Kimmel this week for supporting the administration, not realizing that everything Kimmel advertised was actually ObamaCare aka The Affordable Care Act. TrumpCare doesn’t exist.

Hillary Clinton cracks jokes Seth Myers’ recurring segment Jokes Seth Can’t Tell is one of his best as the late-night host sets up the gags, while his two women writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel handle the punchlines. On Wednesday, the trio invited Hillary Clinton to the show to help laugh off the fact that she had lost the U.S. election exactly one year ago. “According to a recent article, chardonnay is making a comeback,” Meyers said. “And they said I wouldn’t be able to create jobs,” Clinton replied.

Bill Clinton discusses dictators club Hillary wasn’t the only Clinton on late-night this week. Bill sat down with Conan O’Brien to discuss the divide of people based on their political ideologies, as well as warning against dictators who use that divide for their advantage. “The dictators club in the world, and there’s a bunch of them – they want two things,” the former president said. “They want to abolish the line between fact and fiction, and truth and lie. Because they figure if you don’t know what’s true, and you don’t think you can ever know, that pretty soon everybody will accept the fact that democracy is no longer possible.”

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